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...When the federal government tried to use funds as influence on a motorcycle helmet law," Hanson said, "Governor Thompson said that Wisconsin would not pass a law. He was influenced by a motorcycle lobby and 20,000 voters employed by [Milwaukee-based] Harley-Davidson. My goal is to start a similar movement...
Gale grew up in an era when the postwar group of industrial designers -- men like GM's legendary Harley Earl, whose decree of "longer, lower, wider" became the maxim of the industry -- were captivating auto shows with cowls, tail fins and futuristic shapes that turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams...
...pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that had never been experienced in similar-size cars. The result was a design as instantly recognizable and distinctive as Harley Earl's fins, one that almost overnight changed the rules in the other creative studios of Detroit. Who would ever have thought that Chrysler would be turning down a request from Bugatti to use its Viper headlamps...
Sometime a few years ago, movie stars and urbane, goat-cheese-and-endive types discovered bowling alleys, pool halls, tattoos, Harley Davidsons, diners and restaurants that looked like diners but served goat cheese and endive. All of a sudden the pastimes, artifacts and style of low-rent America, in all their glorious white-trashiness, had become chic. The fashion continues to flourish...
...HARLEY-DAVIDSON CAFE, NEW YORK CITY: Last week's opening of this restaurant attracted Alec Baldwin, designers Nicole Miller and Norma Kamali, and the intrinsically low-rent Donald Trump...